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I found an interesting story covering Google’s apparent disregard for blog directories of late. Once again, Google shows links are for traffic above all else.
Blog Marketing Journal: “There are a lot website owners, and even more bloggers, who seem to be getting the jitters over Google’s apparent change of heart over blog directories, [...]

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Google has backed off the Digg purchase.  But I doubt they’ve given up on social voting and commenting in search results.  There was a lot of buzz last week on a possible marriage between Google and Digg, along with posts on TechCrunch showing how Google is experimenting with social search.
If you want to experience what [...]

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Google is toying with Digg’s style of voting in their search results.
At the same time, it seems they are making a play for the whole darned site as well. TechCrunch reports:
“The companies are now in final negotiations according to our sources, although it could be a couple of weeks before it closes.”
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Louis Liem reports on a change with the Google Algorithm. Google seems to have changed the way they are treating subdomains in the rankings.

The article appears at Bukiki.com and includes quotes from Matt Cutts on the changes and what webmasters should expect with regard to subdomain rankings.
It’s likely you’ve seen all the change you [...]

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Now it’s getting interesting!
Search Engine Journal’s Loren Baker dug up some dirt from the weekend…
“Google’s Chief Counsel David Drummond responded on the Google Blog (about the $32 per share offer from Microsoft) that Yahoo is not just another company, but a cornerstone of the Internet and Microsoft’s policiy of monopolistic practices may then [...]

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Link building is going through some changes.  Here’s the latest news from the streets…

“What’s a nice girl like you doing with links like that?” - Debra O. Mastaler writes some insightful link building tips in light of the recent Google pagerank updates and the obvious slapdowns of some very big, popular sites.  She writes about [...]

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Andy Beard has been tracking some interesting pagerank data on several popular sites. His findings are below. There seem to have been a few pagerank updates close together dealing blows to several sites and confusing pagerankings across different Google datacenters.
For what it’s worth, my blog went back to a PR 5 and my [...]

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I have added a cool little tool that not only checks your backlinks listed in the major engines, but also:

Checks your pagerank and Alexa rankings at a glance
Checks your search engine saturation
Checks for bookmarks to you and blog posts linking to you
Checks keyword placement in the engines

It’s a tiny little gadget with a whole lot [...]

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